Example sentences of "is [adv] under [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armed with the knowledge that 2 in 3 of the 4.6 million farmers over 55 years of age have less than 5 hectares , and that the community has about 2 million farmers who are over 65 , McSharry has pointed out that the economic viability of many such farms is constantly under threat and that the introduction of an early retirement scheme would help the small farmer and also reduce production . |
| 2 | The optimum utilisation of space is constantly under review and the benefits of central timetabling of all lecture theatres and teaching rooms are being exploited to the full . |
| 3 | British Rail 's chairman says security is constantly under review . |
| 4 | In the current commuting age , when there are diverse calls on people 's time and energies and the countryside is constantly under pressure from urban development , the village community is anxious to retain the village 's rural character , whilst acknowledging the need to attract and maintain a balanced community . |
| 5 | These testers do not test under load , and it is only under load that the true condition and stamina of a battery can be assessed . |
| 6 | so consequently he 's getting inundated , he really is apparently under pressure |
| 7 | The risk and the cost to the customer is thus under control and there is a relationship between cost and reduction of risk . |
| 8 | Although the new season is just under way a few weeks most teams appear to have shed the rustiness of the close season . |
| 9 | Eurodisney , though , is already under construction , which Eurotunnel was not when it was floated , and as one stockbroking analyst commented : ‘ It is on budget , overground and only two-and-a-half year 's from completion . ’ |
| 10 | The second extruder line is already under construction and footings for the new 20,000 sq ft warehouse are being prepared . |
| 11 | The last point is already under attack with the Rochester development team looking to see whether the multiprocessor AS/400s — such as the four-way F95 — can be made more robust . |
| 12 | TO PROPHESY the rebirth of local railways sounds like pious hopefulness ; to declare that the process is already under way invites outright scorn . |
| 13 | Reglazing there is already under way by Express Glass Contractors , a company with experience gained from replacing windows destroyed by an IRA bomb in Whitehall Place earlier this year . |
| 14 | The £750 million upgrading of the Central Line is already under way , to be followed by a similar programme on the Northern Line ; the Jubilee Line extension and Crossrail will follow . |
| 15 | In these circumstances , the RICS will have completely to relinquish control over curricula content to approved universities , polytechnics and colleges — a process which , as we have seen , is already under way . |
| 16 | I should be surprised if a change at the top alters a necessary reorganization which is already under way . ’ |
| 17 | This ambitious project , the planning of which is already under way , will be one of the most significant Christian unity events to be held in the North East . |
| 18 | Apart from raising taxes , the Government hopes to be able to curb its spending programmes , and a review is already under way . |
| 19 | There are indications that a major reappraisal of curriculum content and access is already under way and seems to be well supported by teachers . |
| 20 | The enquiry is already under way . |
| 21 | The project is already under way and is apparently focused on the speed at which programs run . |
| 22 | This change is already under way in what used to be the most clearly defined of all departments — research . |
| 23 | The process by which , in Dickens 's later writing , objects become more animate than human beings is already under way . |
| 24 | Otto 's dismembered body has been found in the tunnel , a murder investigation is already under way . |
| 25 | Chief tourism officer for Blackpool Barry says work is already under way to improve the sea water there . |
| 26 | Where the gathering is already under way when the decision to impose conditions is taken , the section permits the ‘ most senior in rank of the police officers present at the scene ’ to impose the conditions . |
| 27 | Work is already under way on 72 of these centres , which will be built along the highways of the country . |
| 28 | One project which is already under way , is looking at the impact of new ‘ high technology ’ industry along the M4 Corridor , and the focus here is on the relationship between new industrial methods , local labour markets and changing patterns of social life . |
| 29 | The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers . |
| 30 | Since let signifies here not intervening in some event which is already under way , it is obvious that the letting must be thought of as coinciding in time with the actualization of the other event . |